From 13th to 22nd June 2008 Riccione will be again the great protagonist of best meetings “in the pool” with Young and Master Uisp Italian Championships of Swimming 2008.
Again, because in Riccione they are in fact more and more frequents the sport events of high quality about swimming.
The principal worth is of the splendid Olympic swimming pool with lanes of 50 meters in the Swimming Stadium of the Sport Centre “Italo Nicoletti”.
Among the most modern structures and the most beautiful and effective in Europe, the Swimming Stadium of Riccione it’s very close to the centre of the city and to most of the Hotels, making easy facilitating the access of the people.
For Italian Championships they will come here thousands of swimmers to dispute Young and Master Titles of all specialties.
It will be a pleasure to see this big sport event in the swimming pool of the Stadium of Swimming, that for its olympic characteristics welcome more and more important meetings all around the year.

Inaugurated in 2004 with World Master Championships, the structure the structure got every service of reception, from bar to restaurants, gymnasium, galleries for more than 2.000 spectators and much more.
Among the last events also the Italian Championships of Swimming for lifesaving, during which two new records of the world were recorded.
Besides to the Olympic covered swimming pool with 10 lanes of 50 meters and other pools “on air” from 50 and 25 meters, there is also a pool for dives with springboard at 5, 7,5 and 10 meters.
Also spectators will get the pleasant sensation to be touched by the water of the swimming pool of this new Swimming Stadium.
Who doesn’t get the desire to plunge himself?
Riccione is also now unbeatable to swimming!

While in the head office of the Italian Swimming Federation climate is increasingly warming for the approaching of the Beijing Olympic games, and the national team is on training for the important European Spring Games of Eindhoven, the Swimming Stadium of Riccione is preparing to host the Italian Winter Youth Games, short pool.
Confirming the efficiency of the structure and equipment of Monterosa Street, FIN goes back on the covered swimming-pool with the new generation, for a six-day race extremely important for their growth. From March 6 to 11 young athletes will descend in the water to get tested in the different specialities and to improve perhaps their personal records, under the attentive eyes of FIN heads.
They will begin with the three days of the female section, to follow with men’s.
The town of Riccione is pleased to welcome the event and hopes that the relationship established with FIN could be lasting and lead to increasingly important and positive developments.
Also on this occasion the Green Pearl of the Adriatic will confirm its characteristics of hospitality, efficiency and organization.
And while, swimming lenghts after lenghts, blue champions are arriving in Beijing, and little champions in Riccione, a research, recently published by Tns infratest company, shows that swimming and dives will be the most followed disciplines during the Olympic games by Italian young people and that swimming is the most practiced sport among under 25.
There was no need to motivate further the blue team in view of Beijing… and new generation in view of Riccione…
Certain that our swimmers will not disappoint the expectations of fans, we are ready to applaud the enthusiasm, will and passion of young athletes, grappling with a complete championship, in 25 m pool.
At the Swimming Stadium of Riccione, at the end of the winter, for six days that, we hope, will see the certainties confirming themselves and even young new talents springing.

It seems a film with Esther Williams, but the set is all Italian, indeed of Romagna. At the Swimming Stadium in Riccione everything is ready, lacking only in “camera! We swim”. Then, just like the champion of swimming that Hollywood made famous in the mid 40’s as the aquatic star of musical comedies, the Italian water gymnasts will be engaged in spectacular choreographies by swimming.
We are talking about the Italian Championship of Synchronized Swimming, that, from 22 to 24 February 2008 at the wonderful Olympic Swimming-pool of Riccione, will give us emotions and beauty.
In the ancient times already there are spectators fascinated by this “swimming danced”: the historians tell that in the Phoenician civilization existed girls and boys that, swimming as Tritons and Sirens, formed with their bodies beautiful figures in water and on the surface.
As sport it was formalized only in 1946 in the United States, with the organization of the first national championship. It was included in the Olympic program with the Los Angeles Games in 1984. In Italy it is practiced since 1975 and the athletic activity is regulated by the Italian Swimming Federation (FIN).
Aquatic sport, at agonistic level reserved to women, synchronized swimming is a choreography of exercises in water at music time and asks for coordination of movements, a sense of rhythm, the control of breath and of facial and gestures expression. A great care and a long preparation then, in order to acquire agility in movements and the control of the body.
In Riccione the athletes will compete in solo, duo, trio and team exercises and will have fixed upon them not only the eyes of the jury, of their teachers and families but those of the thousands of people who, we are sure, will fill the gallery.
The Swimming Stadium is ready to be the scene of an important sporting event and the city is preparing to welcome visitors at its best, as its use. For three days of magic aquatic dances with athletes-water fish that, attracted by a music, will go up on the surface and will give substance to a kaleidoscopic divertissement that will gain a storm of cheering.
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A blow of wind is enough to colour the sea line of Riccione: there are the windsurfs. And even the spirit of who is just taking a look, fills of inebriation.
From black and white photography of California at the end of the Sixties to the videos on Youtube at present, windsurf is now a popular sport. It is born from the intuitions of James R. Drake, which, for first, endowed with sail the surf board.
Once extreme and spectacular sport right for physiques endowed not only with muscles but with courage also, the windsurf acquired in the years a different connotation.
In 1984 the interest caused by this discipline carried the International Olympic Committee to insert it into the Olympic World of Sports.
To the first exotic named destinations (Fuerteventura, Guadalupa), a more reassuring ones (Margaret River, St Ives Bay).
Thanks to innovating materials, in the last ten years there was a crescent popular approach to this sport. In fact with the adventurous spirit there is also a big fun, which makes windsurf a sport for families, practiced now everywhere. Even in Riccione you can learn to surf in windsurf school. Currently in Italy the community of windsurfers is of about 50.000 people, with also other 150.000 “precarious”. Women and children represent a significant part of it.
The worldwide success of this sport is tested even by some fashion lines, many agonistic events (sponsored by important brand) and by the Windsurf Day, an unavoidable appointment organized every year in Cattolica, on the Adriatic Coast.
The windsurf is the need to explore, the escape in a spectacular setting, the myth of the perfect wave, the dream to exceed the barrier of the 50 nodes. But it is also a fun, the feeling of staying between sky and sea, of plunging themselves in nature to love it.
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